S.I. No. 324 of 2001

Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Restriction on Artificial Insemination) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order, 2001

I, Joe Walsh, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3, 5 and 13 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (No. 6 of 1966) (as adapted by the Agriculture and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1999 ( S.I. No. 307 of 1999 )), for the purpose of preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, hereby order as follows-

1.       This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Restriction on Artificial Insemination) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order, 2001.

2.       The Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Restriction on Artificial Insemination) Order, 2001 ( S.I. No. 144 of 2001 ) is amended, in Article 6 by the insertion after paragraph (2) of that Article of --

“(3)    A person shall not cause or permit another person to engage in the artificial insemination of bovine animals in contravention of this Article.

(4)    A person shall not have in his or her possession or under his or her control, sell or supply a bovine animal that has been inseminated in contravention of this Article.”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to prohibit possession, sale or supply of an animal which has been inseminated lawfully and to make it an offence to cause or permit another person unlawfully inseminate an animal.

Published by the Stationery Office, Dublin 2